The gnittinK Room takes an experimental, process-based approach to knitting. Instead of aiming at the production of finished objects (a pair of socks, a scarf, a pullover) it explores alternative cross-connections. This includes pre- and post-digital methods of remix, sampling, cross-coding, fiber-cryptography and analogue computing.

What could serve as a knitting instruction that wasn’t meant to? What elements of the knitting process – instructions, notations, instruments, yarn patterns, hand movements – bear parallels to other fields and usages? What textile form could a twitter-feed be translated into? What kind of music could a sock yarn pattern generate?

The gnittinK Room collects and generates patterns and prototypes that re-think the common idea of knitting (and with it, of digital practice in general). This includes pixel patterns, music notations, navigation protocols, algorithmic writings, cooking recipes, as well as practical/conceptual systematics.

TgR is part of the exhibition “Neue Masche” (Rethinking Needlework), April 29 – July 24, 2011 at Museum Bellerive in Zürich, Switzerland.

“The International TECHstyle Art Biennial (ITAB) is a juried exhibition of work by artists mining the expressive potential of fiber media and engaging new information and communication technologies in their artistic processes, as a medium of artistic expression, and/or in the content of their work. Leveraging its location in Silicon Valley, the Museum envisions ITAB serving as the premiere platform for introducing the emerging work of artists exploring the intersection of fibers and technology to the global community that assembles—virtually and non-virtually–on the occasion of San Jose ’s biennial ZeroOne: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge (01SJ).”

THE JÖNKÖPING LETTER ARCHIVE
at “CRAFTWERK 2.0 – New Household Tactics
for the Popular Crafts”
curated by Clara Åhlvik and Otto von Busch
September 19, 2009 – March 21, 2010
Jönköping County Museum, Sweden